1 year ago
Open letter: Media, professional associations, j-schools and more call on safety minister to investigate illegal arrests of journalists
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News
Call for Canada’s public safety minister to take immediate steps to investigate and correct the RCMP’s actions and to ensure that going forward, journalists’ right to report will be protected
1 year ago
Inside the raid on Fairy Creek’s HQ: Violence, arrests and media exclusion
Clay Nikiforuk and Aleisha Langmann were in the Fairy Creek area from Aug. 7 to 14, on assignment for Ricochet. In addition to covering the RCMP’s offensive against the HQ camp, we wanted to find out if media access had improved in the wake of a court ruling that found police conduct towards journalists was unlawful
2 years ago
‘We’re taking the RCMP to court’
A coalition of press freedom groups and media outlets is filing a legal application seeking to ensure press access to protests on Vancouver Island
3 years ago
Inside the manhunt
A reporter’s look into covering the cross-country manhunt for Bryer Schmegelsky and Kam McLeod
3 years ago
RCMP accused of creating ‘crisis of press freedom’ in Wet’suwet’en raids
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News
Limits on reporters’ access, threats of arrest bring criticism from media, journalism groups
3 years ago
CAJ: Rein in the RCMP, journalism is not a crime in Canada
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News
'Canada is a free country, not a police state. But it continues to get tripped up on issues of media freedoms.'
4 years ago
Vice reporter Ben Makuch loses final bid to block RCMP demand for background material
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News
By Colin Perkel
A reporter’s last-ditch attempt at blocking an RCMP demand for his background materials in a terrorism case failed Thursday with a judge refusing to stay the production order.
In her ruling, Ontario Superior Court Justice Breese Davies…
4 years ago
Forcing reporter to give RCMP info on ‘dead’ terror suspect ‘unreasonable,’ Vice argued at hearing
Forcing a reporter to give information on a terror suspect to the RCMP would be unreasonable given that the wanted Canadian man is almost certainly dead, an Ontario justice heard on Tuesday.
6 years ago
Vice Media reporter must turn over materials to RCMP, appeal court rules
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Law
By The Canadian Press
A Vice Media reporter must give the RCMP the background materials he used for stories on an accused terrorist, Ontario’s top court affirmed Wednesday.
In a case that pitted freedom of the press against the ability…
6 years ago
Free expression organizations protest charges against reporter
By Grant Buckler
Media and freedom of expression organizations are protesting after the Royal Canadian Mounted Police charged Justin Brake, a reporter for The Newfoundland and Labrador Independent, with mischief and disobeying a court order for entering the site…
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